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WASHINGTON — Struggling Democratic presidential candidates are facing the bad news that they are not among the 10 who have qualified for the next debate, a predicament that is likely to spell doom for their campaigns. Hours ahead of a midnight Wednesday deadline to qualify, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced she was dropping out of the race after spending at least $4 million on advertising in recent months to qualify. Billionaire climate change activist Tom Steyer, Montana Gov.

MORE (R). Walsh and Weld have announced GOP primary campaigns against Trump in 2020, while Sanford has said he is considering one as well. "Can you believe it? I’m at 94% approval in the Republican Party, and have Three Stooges running against me," Trump tweeted, though it was unclear what poll he was citing. "One is 'Mr. Appalachian Trail' who was actually in Argentina for bad reasons," he continued, referring to Sanford. "Another is a one-time BAD Congressman from Illinois who lost in his second term by a landslide, then failed in radio.

A judge’s ruling on Monday that Johnson & Johnson caused an opioid epidemic in Oklahoma is a good sign for other cities and states suing drugmakers over their alleged role in the crisis. The groundbreaking ruling could be a harbinger of things to come in other cases where localities are trying to extract billions of dollars from drug companies to pay for addiction treatment and other services for victims. It could also pressure drug companies involved in 2,000 lawsuits to settle out of court, deferring lengthily legal battles in the process. “Any way you slice it, yesterday’s judgment is a

Deutsche Bank said in a court filing Tuesday that it has tax returns relevant to House Democrats' subpoenas for financial records of MORE, his family and his businesses, but the bank didn't publicly identify whose returns it had. The name or names of the individuals or entities whose tax returns Deutsche Bank has were redacted in the version of the document posted on the federal courts' public legal database. The bank also said in its letter to a federal appeals court in New York that it has tax returns "related to parties not named in the Subpoenas but who may consti

The New York Times is fighting to maintain a middle course while being beset by criticism on all sides — and it has suffered some self-inflicted wounds in the process. The Times, the single most influential news outlet in the nation, has been accused of anti-Trump bias by the right and excessive deference toward the president by the left.  It has come under fire for being too slow to defend itself from MORE’s “fake news” jabs — yet it’s also taken fire for being overly sensitive to the churn of criticism from Washington pundits and political Twitter. Some of the Times

Gustavo Zavala-Garcia, an illegal alien from Mexico, pleaded guilty on Thursday to murdering Kayla Gomez-Orozco, his cousin by marriage, in 2016 after the girl went missing, CBS Austin reports. Court records released after the murder reveal gruesome details where Zavala-

O’Rourke, who has lauded himself as a champion of a free press, had Breitbart News’s Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak removed from his event at Benedict College Tuesday, with a member of his campaign claiming that Pollak had been “disruptive” at past events – an assertion that is patently false. As Breitbart News

Schwartz, the only person Pitts, Jr., names as involved in the effort, is a Jewish conservative and ally of President Donald Trump. The use of the word “termites” echoes antisemitism from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has recently used the word to attack Jewish people. “A president who has branded journalists ‘enemies of the people’ and news media ‘an evil propaganda machine’ now has working on his behalf an anti-journalism hit squad,” Pitts, Jr.,

The New York Post, citing divorce filings obtained by the newspaper, reports Dr.